European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

[Winston Biscuit]

Good article on the Williams brothers at (Club) Athletic Bilbao

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2023/dec/18/nico-inaki-williams-athletic-bilbao-la-liga

The best winger in Spain this season is Williams. The second best winger in Spain is also Williams

[Orion1871]

Good article on the Williams brothers at (Club) Athletic Bilbao

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2023/dec/18/nico-inaki-williams-athletic-bilbao-la-liga

The best winger in Spain this season is Williams. The second best winger in Spain is also Williams

Standard Sid Lowe.

[Winston Biscuit]

Good article on the Williams brothers at (Club) Athletic Bilbao

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2023/dec/18/nico-inaki-williams-athletic-bilbao-la-liga

The best winger in Spain this season is Williams. The second best winger in Spain is also Williams

Standard Sid Lowe.

Him, Colin Millar and Miguel Delaney are 3 of my go to Spanish football journalists. Though the latter seems to take some flack from the public for reasons I never quite understand.

[Winston Biscuit]

Turkish football returns after a missed weekend during the ref getting punched

Already Istanbulspor's president has taken his team off mid game in protest at not getting a penalty

As I said before, Turkish football is just always one big drama

[Winston Biscuit]

Meant to say earlier, due to a bad run of form, the Spanish press are suggesting Xavi will be in trouble if Barcelona doesn't win convincingly against basement club Almeria tonight.

Currently 2-2 with 10 mins left

[Winston Biscuit]

Harry Kane scores his 21st Bundesliga goal in his 15th game last night

[Winston Biscuit]

The 2 big 'uns in Turkey keep up their crazy pace

[Winston Biscuit]

disappointed by Lyon's resurgence since switching managers. 3 wins in a row now and they are out of the relegation places. BOOOOO

[Winston Biscuit]

Greek league looks more interesting than usual. Maybe the days of Olympiacos walking away with it every season is finally behind them

[Stranded]

Was at the Frankfurt - Moenchengladbach game last night - Frankfurt dominant throughout but somehow failed to find the net despite multiple chances and were 1 down in the 87th minute. Borussia then had their goalscorer Wölber sent off for a second booking - cue pandemonium.

90+2 Buta equalises and there are still 5 mins of injury time to play. Eintracht push everyone forward to make use of the extra man and create chance after chance again but fail to score. An injury causes play to extend further and in the 97th minute, a low cross from the left is bundled in by centre back Koch (or loan from Leeds) - place goes mental.

Incredible way to go into the winter break. Also looks as if Eintracht have signed Donny van der Beek on loan from Man Utd with a view to an €11m transfer in the summer if he shows the kind of form that got him the move to the PL in the first place.

[Winston Biscuit]

4th Div USV Hercules knock Ajax out of the cup with a 93rd minute winner!

Winner
https://twitter.com/FootColic/status/1737920433893036236?t=KLEvSPZdgulRuPWq6QX4ZQ&s=19

[Winston Biscuit]

European Golden Shoe 2023/24 so far:

1. Harry Kane 21goals in 1322 minutes. 42 points
2. Akor Adams 22 goals in 2636 minutes. 36.5 points
3. Kylian Mbappe 18 goals in 1331 minutes. 36 points
=3 Amahl Pellegrino 24 goals in 2396 minutes. 36 points
5 Serhou Guirassy 16 goals in 968 minutes. 32 points

[Winston Biscuit]

Just learned that the club top of the Turkish 2nd tier are called Eyupspor! Would be great if a Yorkshire team get to play them sometime

[Winston Biscuit]

Fenerbahce Vs Galatasaray tomorrow

[Winston Biscuit]

Rangers 2 points behind Celtic with a game in hand. Didn't even realise they were close to them let alone doing better than them

They play each other in 6 days time

[Winston Biscuit]

Turkish super cup final was due to kick off an hour ago in Riyadh but has now been cancelled

The Saudi officials refused to allow the players from both clubs to come out wearing t-shirts bearing Ataturk's face.

[Winston Biscuit]

Arbroath sub keeper came on as an outfield player as they were short of players

The inevitable happened
https://twitter.com/StokeyyG2/status/1741143994715787662?t=bPcgD3aEw7VaGfzFQ4rjAg&s=19

[Sutekh]

Arbroath sub keeper came on as an outfield player as they were short of players

The inevitable happened
https://twitter.com/StokeyyG2/status/1741143994715787662?t=bPcgD3aEw7VaGfzFQ4rjAg&s=19

Poor SKY, if that happened in one of their games we'd be getting continual reruns and programs dedicated to the player concerned. But because it's in the world of proper football it'll barely get a mention and be dismissed within 24 hours as just something that happened.

[Franchise FC]

Arbroath sub keeper came on as an outfield player as they were short of players

The inevitable happened
https://twitter.com/StokeyyG2/status/1741143994715787662?t=bPcgD3aEw7VaGfzFQ4rjAg&s=19

Poor SKY, if that happened in one of their games we'd be getting continual reruns and programs dedicated to the player concerned. But because it's in the world of proper football it'll barely get a mention and be dismissed within 24 hours as just something that happened.

The quality of the strike is something else

[From Despair To Where?]

It was his league debut as well.

Apparently he's scored a couple of free kicks in the Junior leagues.